06/30/2009

I finally started a blog + the beginning of a productive summer.

If you are reading this...THANK YOU for looking and please subscribe! I will be giving things away occasionally, if that is any motivation ;)

I have been meaning to do this for a long time. So here we go...I hope to use this blog as a means for me to post my art, promote my etsy shop, serve as a venue to share cool things I find, gain feedback from friends and future followers as well as a tool to keep me motivated.

Some time ago I realized that my day job of being a grocery store artist was not cutting it, creatively speaking. While I love my job, my style doesn't get to show much & that sometimes get me stuck in a rut. I have a summer break from school, and that can mean me slacking off in the making-pretty-things department. So to kick myself in the butt a little, I signed up for a little indy art/craft show in Des Moines, IA called Market Day I was going home to Ames, IA that weekend anyways. It was a nice experience, though the turn out wasn't what they had hoped for. It was put on by some really cool people from Market Street Media Foundry. I got some great feedback, made a descent amount of sales and I look forward to doing it again. I dubbed my business "Things and Stuff by Rae Alexis". I had a lot of homemade greeting cards that I designed, plenty of prints as well as a few original paintings on canvas, wood and vintage plates. Here is some of the stuff I had for sale. Gypsy Family at the Beach

That is just the tip of the iceberg, folks. The stuff pictured here is a fraction of what I created to sell. Most of which will be posted on etsy soon. If you want to show me some etsy love, add me as a favorite shop...or even better, buy something :) Plus, I have so much more in the works. There just isn't enough time in the day.

So leave me some feed back (Please!!!) While etsy is a great vehicle for selling art, I would rather sell locally at boutiques and such. If y'all have any suggestions of places that I could visit, comment, or drop me a line at RaeAlexis@gmail.com.

Subscribe if ya wanna and come back to visit soon! I hope to be posting new neat stuff by me and others on a regular basis.